An annual event where the public, writers, social commentators, judicial luminaries and the legal profession come together to both celebrate and promote contemporary writings in the fields of justice and human rights, and to overlay these discussions with guest writers in the genre of crime fiction.

Festival Patrons
International Crime Patron:  Ian Rankin
Australian Crime Patron:  Kerry Greenwood
International Social Justice Patron:  Brendan Kilty SC

Reader's Feast thanks everyone who took part in our Crime & Justice Festival, 2009

For more information please contact Reader's Feast Bookstore
email: events@readersfeast.com.au
phone: (03) 9662 4699
www.readersfeast.com.au

The Crime and Justice Festival is looking for volunteers.
If you would like to express interest in volunteering, click here.

Update 23/6/09: Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award Winner 2009
Stephen Wright won the 2009 Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award for his essay on the topic "Climate Change and the global economic crises: can we afford to save the planet?" In his acceptance speech, Stephen commented: "I think Eureka Street and Reader's Feast have done a good thing in offering an essay prize, which is after all, an opportunity and an invitation to think.....we need, in my opinion, a huge act of imagination, on an unprecedented scale and of unprecedented depth, probably on a par with Thomas Merton's revelatory experience on a street corner in Louisville in Kentucky, about the nature of human beings. I don't mean that we should all become saints, whatever that means, but that we all have to be more honest. We don't after all, seem to know how to care for each other, and we really need to learn. So thank you to Eureka Street and Reader's Feast for promoting thinking."

Update 11/06/09: You can find our 11 June 2009 Press Release here.

Update 28/03/09: Details on the Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award are available here.

Update 5/06/08: A recording of Ian Rankin's interview at the RMIT Capitol Theatre (on Wednesday November 14, 2007) is available here.

Update 5/06/08: You can find our first Crime and Justice Festival Newsletter here.